Hmmm. That is a point. FanLib is trying to promote social networking from a mentality that is antithetical to it. In some real sense the succesfuly Web 2.0 companies -- LJ, YouTube, Facebook, the unmitigated horror that is MySpace -- have managed to do this, wed an essentially profitless action (social networking for the sake of social networking) to a profitable enterprise, but they have either done it using social networks that already exist (MySpace and Facebook simply provide an online way of communicating with RL friends), have a basis in entertainment that is independent of the networking that might exist (YouTube), or have done it with a real respect for the nature of the interactions (LJ, for all their problems). FanLib is not doing any of this. They have taken the concept of Web 2.0 without any understanding of the realties behind it, and have correspondingly fallen into traps.
From which I return to my original point: they are trying to break into an established community by saying "Here we are! Aren't we cool?" instead of by working within the rules of the community, and until they realize that there are rules to the community and they cannot be violated if you wish to gain the community-as-a-whole's acceptance, they will continue to be unable to grasp why we don't like them.
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Date: 2007-05-26 02:44 pm (UTC)From which I return to my original point: they are trying to break into an established community by saying "Here we are! Aren't we cool?" instead of by working within the rules of the community, and until they realize that there are rules to the community and they cannot be violated if you wish to gain the community-as-a-whole's acceptance, they will continue to be unable to grasp why we don't like them.